Archive for August, 2008

Not one who’s great at being overly sentimental, I managed to miss ZOMG, Candy!’s first birthday! My first post was back on August 02, 2007. At the time, I didn’t know how long I’d manage to keep it up at started out rather tentatively.

Two months in, I made the decision to scale back from 5 to 3 reviews a week so that I would have time to actually study and learn and stuff. Since then, I’ve managed to post new reviews on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and new news on Tuesdays and Thursdays with respectable (I think) regularity. As best I can tell, this is my 319th published post to date.

So what will the next 365 days bring for ZOMG, Candy!? Quite honestly, I’m not sure. When school starts up, I’ll be a senior and busy with senior stuff and applications for post-grad things on top of my normal schoolwork and school life. I’ll also be super busy with the band until my reign term ends in late January. Football season (Woo! Football!) alone will eat my life. I don’t know if I’ll have the time to devote to my beloved blog.

On the other hand, I love writing about candy! And I’ve got a ginormous candy stash to work my way through. Seriously, it must be reproducing while I’m not looking or something; I taste and taste, yet it never seems to diminish. So the current plan is to try to hang on as long as I can handle it. After all, my webhosting doesn’t expire until January of 2009.

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Every time I go to Ikea, I see bags of Daim chocolates and consider buying them. But I never do because they’re good-sized bags, and it seems like too much candy for me to buy at once. When you have a stash as big as mine, you don’t want to add large bags of all the same candy. Fortunately, they can be bought in manageable single bars all over England, so I was able to give them a try.

I like that the bars are boldly emblazoned with the price so I don’t have to worry about being overcharged by one convenience store or the other. Thirty-eight pence (about $0.75 with today’s weak dollar) is a solid deal for a bar in the U.K.,and the Daim is more than worth it.

The Daim is quite like a Heath or Skor bar (by the way, can anyone explain why Hershey’s makes two nearly identical bars?) in that it’s chocolate over toffee. The Daim, however, bills its center (or centre) as almond caramel, and I think the almond really makes a difference.

The toffee center of the Daim is crisp and nutty thanks to those additional almonds. The darkly flavored toffee center cleaves cleanly upon being bitten and has a great crunch to it. It kind of gets stuck in your molars but not impossibly so. The milk chocolate coatings is quite sweet, and while it stops short of being cloying, I would like to try a dark chocolate version of the Daim.

I found this bar quite enjoyable, but I love toffee, so my OMG for this may be biased. Then again, David Lebovitz loved it, and Clotilde designed a delicious-looking recipe around it: gateaux aux Daims.